Hello from Angola (an African country)

Hello Steemit, my name is Bruno, I'm 27 (almost 28) and I am from Angola. Angola is an African country located here:
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Here are some beautiful pictures of my country (taken from a google search):

And me!
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(Yes, I also have a small home studio, making beats is my hobby. I will post some my stuff here aswell)

My native language is Portuguese, but I like to write in English just to practice. Most of the "good stuff" is written in English so it helps. I also use an App called Grammarly and it helps a lot.
I joined Steemit because I heard that it allows people to determine the value (the real value) of the content that is published. I think that this concept is brilliant because nowadays it is becoming harder to find a social media platform that has value as the main goal. So I'm here to share my background, my stories, my work and etc... I hope it will help or touch someone in a good way.

I'm currently researching and learning about cryptocurrencies, mainly Bitcoin and Ethereum. Since the last year, my country has been deprived of all major fiat currencies (USD and EUR), so it is getting harder and harder to travel and to buy services or products from abroad. I believe that cryptocurrencies will solve this problem because they provide a universal, borderless, payment system. I'm also an Ethereum miner (with 30 Mh/s on average) and I wish to expand by reinvesting the profits made from mining so that one day I can create a mining farm and hopefully help people from my community to get into the universal payment system by exchanging cryptocurrencies for fiat currencies.

At the beginning of this year, I set a goal for myself. The goal was to read 12 books (1 per month) during the course of this year. I ended up achieving the goal much sooner than I expected. You can find below the list of the books I have read:

1
Title: Em nome do povo
By: Lara Pawson
Genre: National History
Finished at: -01-2017

2
Title: O mapa da independência financeira
By: Paulo de Vilhena
Genre: Finance Economics
Finished at: 15-02-2017

3
Title: Quem mexeu no meu queijo
By: Spencer Johnson
Genre: Self-help Life Strategy
Finished at: 15-02-2017

4
Title: As 3 escolhas para o sucesso
By: Stephen Covey
Genre: Self-Help
Finished at: 17-02-2017

5
Title: Como realizar apresentações com sucesso
By: Andrew Bradbury
Genre: Presentation Skills
Finished at: 28-02-2017

6
Title: Alto Desempenho
By: Zig Ziglar
Genre: Self-Help, Leadership Skills
Finished at: 19-03-2017


7
Title: Como realizar um plano de negócios
By: Brian Finch
Genre: Economics, Enterprise
Finished at: 17-04-2017

8
Title: A estratégia do olho de tigre
By: Renato Grinberg
Genre: Personal Skills, Vision, and Strategy
Finished at: 11-05-2017

9
Title: A bibliotecária de Auschwitz
By: Antonio G. Iturbe
Genre: History, War, Drama
Finished at: 15-05-2017

10
Title: Mastery
By: Robert Greene
Genre: Self-Help, History
Finished at: 23-07-2017

11
Title: Mastering Bitcoin
By: Andreas Antonopolous
Genre: Bitcoin, Blockchain
Finished at: 09-09-2017

12
Title: The 10% Entrepreneur
By: Patrick J. Mcginnis
Genre: Entrepreneurship
Finished at: 17-10-2017

I'm currently reading "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki.

I think books are the best way to collect multiple mindsets and make them your own. Books make your mind open to new possibilities, new ways of thinking and new ways of perceiving the world around you.

So that's it. This is my introduction to the world. I hope you enjoyed reading it and please feel free to comment. As an African, my ultimate goal is to inspire other Africans to start creating products, content, and services. We need to stop consuming and start creating solutions to our own problems because nobody else will.

My motto: Great things come from small things that you do every day.

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Really nice gif. Upvote for that!

Hello, have a good one.

Welcome! Nice to have you!

Thank you, likewise. Cheers

Hello, you are welcome to steemit!!! I give you upvote to your post and remember to follow me as a friend to help you grow in this social network!

Thanks, mate. Good luck out there.

Hello @brunofreitas and welcome to Steemit!

This is a great place with a great community -- glad to have you around!
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Thank you very much. Cheers

hello well I don't know any of these books. 😄😅

That is perfectly normal. Most of them are in Portuguese so maybe that is why you don't know any of them.
Robert Greene's Mastery is a classic for me and I recommend. Cheers!